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Second Star to the Right

Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination
Buch | Softcover
292 Seiten
2008
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-4437-3 (ISBN)
48,45 inkl. MwSt
Includes essays that approach Peter Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.
Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises.Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children's book writer inspired by J. M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biographies and a feature film. The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.

Allison B. Kavey is an assistant professor in the history department at CUNY John Jay College. She is the author of Worlds of Secrets: Books of Secrets and Popular Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600. Lester D. Friedman is the Senior Scholar-in-Residence in the Media and Society Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is the editor of American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations and the coeditor of the Screen Decades Series (both Rutgers University Press).

Introduction: From peanut butter to the silver screen / Allison B. Kavey
Tinker Bell, the fairy of electricity / Murray Pomerance
"To die will be an awfully big adventure": Peter Pan in Word War I / Linda Robertson
"I do believe in fairies, I do, I do": the history and epistemology of Peter Pan / Allison B. Kavey
"Shadow of [a] girl": an examination of Peter Pan in performance / Patrick B. Tuite
Peter Pan and the possibilities of child literature / Martha Stoddard Holmes
Disney's Peter Pan: gender, fantasy, and industrial production / Susan Ohmer
Hooked on Pan: Barrie's immortal pirate in fiction and film / Lester D. Friedman
"Gay, innocent, and heartless": Peter Pan and the queering of popular culture / David P.D. Munns
Peter and me (or how I learned to fly): network television broadcasts of Peter Pan / Theresa Jones

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.1.2009
Zusatzinfo 24
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 510 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-8135-4437-8 / 0813544378
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-4437-3 / 9780813544373
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